encomium
noun
a formal expression of high praise; eulogy.
encomia
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pluralof encomium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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CUMMING, Ga. – In a barn 40 miles north of downtown Atlanta, after barbecue was served and local dignitaries basted each other with encomia, Gov. Brian Kemp got down to brass tacks.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2022
Seen thus, the Alger books are not merely encomia on hard work but disturbing texts about power, desire, eros and fantasy — elements that are also integral to American perceptions of wealth.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
While the Kennedy brief went extinct upon his retirement, it may now be replaced by the Gorsuch brief, which replaces florid encomia to freedom with highly technical textualist arguments.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018
It has already been translated into six languages and is published with dust-jacket encomia from Russell Brand, Susan Sarandon, Brian Eno, Helena Kennedy QC and Paul Mason.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2016
He also wrote hymns, paeans, dithyrambs, odes for processions, songs of maidens, mimic dancing songs, drinking songs, dirges and encomia, or panegyrics on princes.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
